Immigrants from Haiti Allowed to Stay in United States under Temporary Protected Status

Austin Kocher, PhD
3 min readMay 24, 2021

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Over the weekend, the Biden administration granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitian immigrants in the United States.

TPS is a special immigrant status that is granted by the government in circumstances when it would not be ethical (or sometimes even logistically possible) to…

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Austin Kocher, PhD

I study America’s immigration enforcement system. Assistant Professor at TRAC. Graduate of OSU Geography. Online at austinkocher.com.